Offaly Archives

Application and Report Book (Outdoor Relief)

IE OCL BG158/6
Item
1862-1863

Application and report book for the relieving officer to enter applications for relief. This book records approximately 500 applications and contains details on the applicant's circumstances and subsequently the decision of the Board of Guardians to grant outdoor relief or to admit the applicant to the workhouse.

Also contains the first record of boarded-out children from Tullamore Union under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1862.

Map of Parsonstown (Birr) area

IE OH OHS 86/1
Item
c.1808

Part of Sketch maps of William Larkin

Map of King's Channel area, County Waterford

IE OH OHS 86/4
Item
c.1818

Part of Sketch maps of William Larkin

Map of Banagher area

IE OH OHS 86/2
Item
c.1808

Part of Sketch maps of William Larkin

Map of Ferbane area

IE OH OHS 86/3
Item
c.1808

Part of Sketch maps of William Larkin

The Rosse Papers

IE BCA ROSSE
Fonds
1595

Parsons Family, Earls of Rosse

Map of the Town of Philipstown, King's County, estate of 4th Viscount Molesworth

IE OH OHS 88
Fonds
1786

Canvas-backed paper map of the former county town of Philipstown (Daingean) compiled by Arthur Richards Neville in June 1786 for Richard Nassau Molesworth, 4th Viscount Molesworth (1748-1793). The map covers 2887 statute acres and includes environs of the town. The plots are numbered 1-130 with an accompanying reference table describing the contents of each land-holding unit. The reference is tabular, listing tenants' name, description of the holdings (e.g. 'a very fine farm all good meadow', 'good high Meadow & Pasture', 'great red bog', 'poor ground' etc) a yearly value and a sum total of the east and south east side of Philipstown.

Scale 20 perch to the inch (1:5040)

Neville, Arthur Richards